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P. Axillars white, or barred with 

 white and dusky. 



Totanus. (Page 164.) 

 f. Bill slightly widened at tip, which (at 

 least in dried specimen) is pitted or 

 wrinkled on top. 



Micropalama. (Page 152.) 

 g 2 . Tail shorter than exposed culmen. ■ 



h 1 . Terminal portion of both upper and lower man- 

 dibles grooved medially and pitted or wrinkled 

 (as in Gallinago) ; wing less than 7.00. 



Macrorhamphus. (Page 150.) 



h 2 . Terminal portion of upper and lower mandibles 



entirely smooth and hard ; wing more than 



7.00 Limosa. (Page 162.) 



d 2 . Hind-toe absent Calidris. (Page 162.) 



c a . Bill excessively widened and flattened at tip, its greatest width equal to 

 about half the length of the exposed culmen. 



Eurynorhynchus. (Page 160.) 

 a 2 . Back of tarsus covered with small hexagonal scales. (Subfamily Numenince!) 

 Bill decidedly arched or decurved ; wing 8.00 or more. 



Numenius. (Page 170.) 



Genus SCOLOPAX Linnjeus. (Page 147, pi. XLY., fig. 1.) 



Species. 



Adult : Above rusty brown", everywhere variegated with dusky and light 

 grayish and bufly, the middle line of the back and the scapulars marked with large 

 irregular black spots or blotches, the scapulars much mixed posteriorly with light 

 grayish and the sides of the interscapular region almost continuously light grayish, 

 forming a pair of well-defined V-shaped marks on each side of the rusty black- 

 spotted areas ; quills with outer webs spotted with pale cinnamon in transverse 

 series, the exterior quill broadly edged with pure white ; forehead and fore part of 

 crown brownish gray; hind part of crown with occiput black, crossed by two nar- 

 row bands of light rusty or ochraceous, and bordered anteriorly and posteriorly, 

 respectively, by two others ; a dusky stripe from corner of mouth to eye ; lower 

 parts in general pale fulvous-grayish irregularly barred with dark brown. Downy 

 young : General color rusty ochraceous, the upper parts marked with large blotch- 

 like areas of deep rusty, and an indistinct band of the same across chest. Length 

 about 13.50, wing 8.00, culmen 3.00-3.25, tarsus 1.50, middle toe 1.30. Eggs 1.71 X 

 1.37, rounded ovate, pale dull buff or dull buffy white, spotted with raw umber and 

 purplish gray. Bab. Northern parts of eastern hemisphere ; occasional in eastern 

 North America 227. S. rusticola Linn. European Woodcock. 



